Sequentially Acting Plural Headers Patents (Class 53/302)
  • Patent number: 11174143
    Abstract: An automatic cosmetic bottle capping having a first conveyor belt, a second conveyor belt, and a third conveyor belt. A sliding convex is provided at a surface of the first conveyor belt, a capper is movably sleeved on the first conveyor belt, a suction tip is provided in the capper, rolling balls are provided inside the capper, a through-hole is provided in an external surface of the capper, a capping claw is provided on a lower end of the capper, a positioning plate is provided on an upper end of the capper, springs are provided at a lower end of the positioning plate, a hole plug is movably connected outside the through-hole, and a cap is provided on a front end of the second conveyor belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignees: LOOBI (GUANGZHOU) HEALTH INDUSTRY CO., LTD, GUANGZHOU HWASUEN HEALTH INDUSTRY CO., LTD
    Inventor: Minjia Huang
  • Patent number: 10335792
    Abstract: A reagent bottle includes an outer cap and an inner closing cap. The inner closing cap has a recess for gripping the cap. In addition, a system for handling closures is provided wherein a method removes a closing cap from a reagent bottle and a related gripper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC OY
    Inventors: Vesa Nuotio, Olli Myyryläinen
  • Patent number: 9810307
    Abstract: A filler cam apparatus having an upward directing portion and an insert member. The upward directing portion having a generally circular configuration, and includes a main body with an upper cam surface extending therealong. The upwardly directing portion includes at least one insert slot. The insert member is releasably attachable to the main body, positionable in the insert slot. The insert member has a body defining a base, an outer surface and an inner surface. The base of the insert member interfaces with the base of the main body. The insert member further includes an upper cam surface including an entry and an exit and a central valley. The entry and exit correspond to opposing portions of the upper cam surface of the main body on either side of the at least one insert slot, with the central valley defining a downward depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Fogg Filler Company
    Inventors: Michael Fogg, George Herrala, Larry Rillema
  • Patent number: 8359818
    Abstract: A large transfusion filling and corking machine includes a frame unit, an electric control unit, a bottle-in unit, a following and filling unit, a nitrogen-charging and corking unit, and a bottle-out transfer wheel unit. The bottle-in unit, the following and filling unit, the nitrogen-charging and corking unit, and the bottle-out transfer wheel unit are mounted on the frame unit and connected by turns. The nitrogen-charging and corking unit is connected with a cork-delivering unit. A nitrogen-precharging unit is arranged between the bottle-in unit and the following and filling unit, which is connected with the bottle-in unit through a bottle-in transfer wheel unit, and connected with the following and filling unit through a transitional transfer wheel unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Truking Technology Limited
    Inventors: Zhen Liu, Huanghui Long, Pengcheng Li, Yue Tang, Jiuzhou Su
  • Patent number: 8353145
    Abstract: A capping machine (1) of carousel design comprises a centre shaft (2) turning on a fixed base frame (3) about a vertical axis of rotation (Y), a set of capping units (4) encircling and revolving as one with the shaft (2) about the axis of rotation (Y), and a cylindrical cam (5) interposed between the shaft (2) and the capping units (4), by which the single units (4) are caused to move toward and away from the fixed base frame (3). During operation, the cam (5) is held in at least one predetermined fixed position relative to the base frame (3) by a single supporting element (6) anchored to the base frame (3), concealed internally of the rotating shaft (2) and connected to the cam (5), which represents a departure from the conventional method of supporting the cam on two or more columns located externally of the carousel structure and exposed to view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Azionaria Construzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gianpietro Zanini, Marco Baroni
  • Patent number: 7677012
    Abstract: A unit for applying opening devices to packages of pourable food products having a rupturable portion includes a conveyor for feeding the packages successively along a given path; and a gripping device for receiving the opening devices at a pickup station, and which move cyclically between the pickup station and an application station interfacing with the path and where the opening devices are applied to respective packages; the trajectory of the gripping device from the application station to the pickup station is distinct from the path of the packages; and the unit also includes a pressure device generating a contact pressure between the packages and the opening devices as of the application station and along at least a portion of the path of the packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance SA
    Inventors: Gianfranco Cavilli, Omar Succi, Gabriele Borasi, Danilo Veroni, Bruno Sonzogni
  • Patent number: 7401445
    Abstract: A conveyor moves in a horizontal transport direction through a closing station and has plates forming a succession of transverse rows of cutouts each holding a respective vessel. A stationary main frame at the station is traversed by the conveyor extends. A secondary frame is carried by guides on the main frame for movement of the secondary frame between a use position in the main frame above the conveyor and a service position projecting transversely from the main frame and supported horizontally transversely offset from the conveyor. A plurality of respective sealing heads carried on the secondary frame can put covers on the vessels when the secondary frame is in the use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Hamba Filltec GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Franz Hubert Bausch, Uwe Gerasch